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Email Marketing

Still the highest-ROI channel in marketing — when the infrastructure is right and the emails actually land in the inbox.

Marketer building an email campaign on a laptop at a clean desk — email marketing and lifecycle flows by NTL of NYC.
Newsletters and lifecycle flows with strong deliverability.
2007In business since
100sof small businesses ranked
6Global offices, one accountable team
Why this matters

The problem we solve

Every year someone publishes another "email is dead" article. Every year email continues to be the highest-ROI digital marketing channel for the businesses that take it seriously — and a complete waste of budget for the ones that do not. The difference is usually infrastructure, not creative.

Most "email problems" we audit trace back to one or more of the same root causes: the sending domain is not warmed up so half the campaigns land in spam. DKIM and SPF records are misconfigured. The list has not been pruned in years, so engagement metrics are dragging deliverability down for everyone. Automation flows are off (no welcome sequence, no abandoned cart, no win-back). Campaigns go out at the same time every week regardless of what people actually open. And nobody is measuring revenue per recipient because the analytics are not wired to revenue.

Done right, email becomes the channel that drives 25-40% of total revenue for an established small business. The infrastructure work to get there is one-time. The ongoing campaign work is monthly. The compounding from a clean list, warmed-up domain, and intelligent automation lasts for years.

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How we work

Our approach

A repeatable playbook refined across hundreds of small-business engagements since 2007.

  1. 1

    Audit — deliverability, list health, current automation

    Two-week audit covering domain authentication (DKIM, SPF, DMARC), sender reputation across Gmail/Outlook/Apple, list health (open rates, bounces, unengaged segments), existing automation flows, and recent campaign performance. Output: a written diagnostic with prioritized fixes — the deliverability work that comes first, then the campaign and automation upgrades.

  2. 2

    Infrastructure — domain, ESP, authentication

    Set up or fix the sending infrastructure. Authenticated sending domain (separate from your transactional domain so marketing reputation does not pollute order confirmations). DKIM, SPF, and DMARC properly configured. ESP selection (FluentCRM for WordPress shops, Mailchimp or Klaviyo for e-commerce, ConvertKit for creator businesses, custom for unusual cases). Migration from any existing platform without losing the list or the automation history.

  3. 3

    List build + segmentation

    Audit the list, suppress chronically unengaged subscribers (this counterintuitively improves deliverability), and segment by behavior: customers vs prospects, recency, source, purchase category, lifecycle stage. Then build the on-site capture flows (signup forms, exit intent, post-purchase opt-in) that grow the list with people who actually want to hear from you.

  4. 4

    Automation flows — welcome, win-back, abandoned, post-purchase

    The flows that pay for the entire service. Welcome series (3-5 emails) for new subscribers. Abandoned cart for e-commerce. Post-purchase: thank you, product education, review request, repeat-purchase prompt. Win-back for subscribers who have not engaged in 90 days. Birthday or anniversary touches where relevant. Each flow tested, measured, and refined monthly.

  5. 5

    Ongoing campaigns + measurement

    Monthly campaign production: 4-8 sends per month depending on cadence, written and designed for your brand, segmented for relevance, sent at times that match your audience's actual open behavior. Monthly reporting on open rate, click rate, list growth, deliverability, and revenue per recipient — tied to GA4 and your CRM or e-commerce platform.

Scope

What's included

Every engagement covers the work below — adjusted to where your business actually is.

  • ✓Deliverability audit (domain authentication, sender reputation, blocklist check)
  • ✓DKIM, SPF, and DMARC record setup and verification
  • ✓ESP selection and migration (FluentCRM, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, ConvertKit, others)
  • ✓List audit, suppression of chronically unengaged subscribers, hygiene
  • ✓Segmentation strategy and implementation
  • ✓On-site signup forms, exit-intent capture, post-purchase opt-in
  • ✓Welcome series (3-5 email automation)
  • ✓Abandoned cart automation (for e-commerce)
  • ✓Post-purchase automation: thank you, education, review request, win-back
  • ✓4-8 monthly broadcast campaigns: written, designed, segmented, scheduled
  • ✓A/B testing on subject lines, send times, and creative
  • ✓Monthly reporting: opens, clicks, deliverability, revenue per recipient, list growth
Industries

Built for businesses like yours

We tailor every engagement to the specifics of your vertical — same playbook, different application.

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Real Estate
From solo agents to multi-office brokerages — websites, local SEO, and lead-flow tooling built for how real estate actually closes deals.
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Restaurants & Hospitality
Websites that fill tables — menu SEO, reservation integrations, and review-driven local rankings for restaurants, cafés, bars, and hotels.
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Cleaning Services
Local-SEO-first websites for residential and commercial cleaners — instant-quote forms, service-area pages, and the lead routing that converts.
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Moving Companies
Our deepest specialization — over a decade of work with carriers, brokers, and household-goods movers across the U.S.
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Your industry not listed?
Our cross-vertical capabilities still apply. Tell us about your business — if we're not the right fit, we'll say so.
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FAQ

Common questions

How big does my list have to be before email is worth it?
A focused list of 500 engaged subscribers can drive meaningful revenue. A list of 50,000 disengaged contacts often drives less than that. List size is less important than list health (deliverability, engagement, recency). We work with clients across a wide range of list sizes — what we look for is whether the subscribers are real people who chose to opt in, and whether the business has something worth saying to them.
What is the right ESP — FluentCRM, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, something else?
Depends on the business. FluentCRM is great for WordPress-centric small businesses (self-hosted, no per-contact fees, deep integration). Klaviyo is the standard for serious e-commerce. Mailchimp is fine for businesses already on it. ConvertKit is the right tool for creators and info-product businesses. We help you pick honestly based on what you actually need, not on what we get the best partner rate from.
My open rates are dropping. Is email dying?
Almost certainly not. Open rates dropping is usually one of three things: (1) deliverability is degrading and emails are landing in Promotions or spam — fixable, (2) the list is aging out and unengaged subscribers are dragging averages down — fixable with hygiene, (3) Apple Mail Privacy Protection inflated open rates artificially in 2021-2022 and that effect is finally normalizing — that one is a metric quirk, not a real drop. We diagnose which is happening for you and fix the actual cause.
When is the best time to send email?
Whatever time your specific audience opens. Generic answers (Tuesday 10am) are mostly wrong for any specific business. We A/B test send times against your actual subscribers and let the data tell us. For most B2C, mid-morning weekdays works well. For B2B, mid-morning Tuesday-Thursday. For consumer e-commerce, evenings and weekends often outperform. None of these are universal — your list will tell you.
How is this different from FluentCRM running by itself?
FluentCRM (or any ESP) is a tool — what we provide is the strategy and ongoing operation around it. The tool can send emails; it cannot decide which segments get which message, write the copy that converts, A/B test subject lines, monitor deliverability, fix DKIM when it breaks, or analyze what is actually driving revenue. Those are people-and-process decisions. We can also help you stand up FluentCRM yourself if you want to operate it in-house after launch.
Do you handle the transactional emails too (order confirmations, password resets)?
For e-commerce yes — transactional and marketing email should live on separate sending domains to keep reputations clean. We can set up the transactional infrastructure (typically SMTP2GO, Postmark, or SendGrid) at the same time. For non-e-commerce businesses, transactional volume is usually low enough that it can stay on the existing setup; we audit it as part of the engagement.

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